Posted on 06/15/2025 3:02:42 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
Ari Fleischer, former press secretary for President George W. Bush, on Sunday called conservative commentator Tucker Carlson a “phony” for accusing the Trump administration of being “complicit in the act of war” in supporting Israel in its conflict with Iran.
“I’ve known Tucker for 25 years, when he co-hosted an MSNBC show with Paul Begala. Tucker doesn’t have a consistent thought in his head, except self-promotion,” Mr. Fleischer posted Sunday on X with past videos of Mr. Carlson calling for Iran’s destruction. “Now he says that’s a warmonger. He’s a modern carnival barker.”
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On Sunday, Mr. Fleischer’s post on social media included a video clip from 2006, when Mr. Carlson criticized antisemitism in Iran and said Iran should be given two options: “You either stop the nuclear program or we will bring down an earthquake upon you using God’s wrath.”
It included a 2012 clip in which Mr. Carlson says, “I’m sure I am the lone voice in saying this, I think Iran deserves to be annihilated.”
“I think they are lunatics, I think they are evil,” he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Mr. Fleischer is correct.
Yeah. Just because he was a GOPe doesn’t mean he’s always wrong.
I referred to O’Reilly as a carnival barker too, back when he was flavor of the day.
Broader perspective as far as media, carnival barker is better than Goebbels or 1984 Ministry of Truth media, which is what most media is.
Ari is a “dual-citizen”. Tucker, is not.
Ari has a conflict of interest.
“The men who do not become Americans and nothing else are hyphenated Americans; and there ought to be no room for them in this country. The man who calls himself an American citizen and who ... the better it will be for every good American.”
Theodore Roosevelt
I object to Mr. Fleischer’s comparison. Carnival barking is a reputable line of work - sensationalistic, yes, but generally harmless and entertaining.
What Carlson is doing is not.
That's who we really should listen to: W.
He was one great pres -- NOT.
Only got us into two of the biggest boondoggle wars that we lost since WWII. Did I mention that they cost us TRILLIONS!
Yep. He's our man!
Tucker is fine.
He’s consistent.
But in some cases you have to differentiate.
Tucker doesn’t see that.
Not every conflict is the same.
In the Israel case, you really do have a nation that is a Republic, they really were attacked unprovoked, they really are fighting an enemy that wants us dead too and is best described as “evil.”
It’s the story of the boy that cried wolf. We invoke all these ideas (unprovoked attack, WMD, human rights, democracy, a threat to us, war of aggression...) all the time, but then when it actually is true, people don’t even listen anymore.
Iran has been KILLING AMERICANS for many years: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Beirut_barracks_bombings
Iran was directly acting against us in Iraq as well, arming the likes of Muqtada Sadr’s militia with GPS, platter charges, new mortar rounds, Intel and advisors, night vision. There are guaranteed graves in this nation and folks at the VA missing arms and legs because of this.
Iran “is” a threat ever since the Ayatollah Kehmeni seized power. This is not a threat we created in some self fulfilling prophecy like the Russians today. Iran is an idiological based enemy that cannot be appeased or negotiated with.
You can rationally deal with the Russians, they are predictable, doctrinal, and in reality not unlike us. But not the Iranians. You’re dealing with an enemy that is a sworn enemy since their inception as the Islamic Republic and sees us as their enemy in idiological terms. Good luck Trump, dealing with Iran and getting a long term peace with them.
The flack slams a news reader for being a “carnival barker”.
(And Tucker was right.)
Can’t stand either one of them.
I remember Ari Fleischer very well. He was the best press secretary any president could ever have; he was quite adept at handling the press “journalists” with ease.
Tucker is an attention seeking, eastern frat boy, elitist anti-semetic who will say anything or contradict himself depeding on which way the wind is blowing. He is despicable.
Correct on all counts.
On Carson. The “Carnival Barker”
We can agree. Total fraud.
2012 Iran, is a different country and threat than in 2025. With Russia and Ukraine at war, Israel on its revenge against anyone not Jewish tour. We need to treat Iran as a moderate nation. They deserve the right to exist, or do we ethnically cleanse countries now because Israel hates them?
The Zionistas are intent on taking over the entire Middle East. Just watch them, they are drunk on power. They own our Politicians lock stock and panties. THEY are a bigger threat to world peace than Iran, Syria or Egypt.
Uh, Stormfront has a different URL. Perhaps you meant to post this slanderous GARBAGE over there. Hit the road, jerk, and doncha come back no more, no more, no more, no more...
You categorize me without knowing me. Sorry, I have an opinion different than yours. EVER SINCE the nation of Israel was planted by the UN, the Middle East has exploded into neverending wars. How many wars in the ME did we get involved in before 1948? Was the number -1-, around the birth of the Marine Corp under Jefferson.
It seems the more we fight the Muslims, the more territory in the Western nations they take control of. That is a strange method of winning.
That is the leftist influence in schools and other moral decline in Europe, including allowing an influx of muzzlimes into their countries. They bring their hatred of Jews and Western values with them. They then run for office and often win, due to the same leftist influences. Thus, they spread their influence and march toward imposing Sharia and other muzzlime-related laws in these countries. And their rapes and murders of the local populations. Has nothing to do with the U.S., except for the same thing occurring in areas like Dearbornistan and the election of such animals as Ilhan Omar and Trashida Tlaib. And what about the attacks on U.S. troops and military installations by local muzzlimes like Houthis?
OUR politicians from-Bush to Trump, all inclusive are in power, and we have immigration of Muslims. They are not fit for a free society, they are of, by and for Islam. It is not my choice to allow them in.
Immigration is almost exclusively from India, the Middle East and Africa. Non-Christians and of course the open borders of Mexico.
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